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We're delighted to celebrate the new version of Vodafone Live!, Vodafone's mobile web portal which launched last month. A short, tight project, we worked with a great Vodafone team to improve the front-end of the new site. Our priorities were to define a more logical site structure; cr[...]

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Over the last couple of years, this site has examined, mentioned, discussed or suggested around 250 examples of ‘control’ features or methods designed into products, systems and environments - many of which have come from readers’ suggestions and comments on earlier posts. I’[...]

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PageRank (PR) is a word which will never disappear from the SEO/SEM arena. For some, it’s an obsession. For me, it’s one of the most pointless factors when considering an internet marketing campaign, mainly due to the following factors: You can only see a change in PageRank on a site ev[...]

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I have moved my development environment from Kubuntu to Arch Linux. I used Kubuntu for 2-3 years, and have tried Fedora and OpenSuse before that. However, at this point of time, as I have learned more, the Arch Way seems to be more in line with what I need. I started feeling a while back that I need[...]

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Though he may not have a job for long. Jeff Croft wrote this weekend in a post called Tools do not a designer make about “designers” and their reliance on tools instead of talent or a broader education. His opinion, a popular one, is that it’s not fair for people to run around [...]

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Assembled here is another set of sites that make use of the standard 3 bucket format. I can't help but ponder why it is that designers gravitate to this magic number. Off hand, I can see several reasons why it is so appealing. For one it creates a perfect balance. One item split in the middle a[...]

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I’ve been looking at game development with Javascript lately. I’ll admit that the possibilities with Javascript are not quite as fancy as what one can do with other tools like Flash and Silverlight, but there is so much available right now at least as far as 2D animation and interaction [...]

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Anna’s been writing some how-to articles lately on her crafty efforts around the house. This one has delicious results to which I can attest. She’s also been taking some amazing photos. Cool stuff! [LINK] [...]

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“The piece is called Daydream of the faceless worker. It is about 6×14 meters and made up of 4000 post-it notes. I wrote poetry on about 400. They had told me that the wall was half the size. My idea then was to let people take what they liked and have pens around, so that they could add[...]

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By no means to I consider myself to be a usability professional. On the other hand, I do have an interest in the subject and try to read as much as possible from the true professionals in the field. That doesn’t go to say that I’m not allowed to have an opinion on certain things I run in[...]

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